David K. Joyce

Rare Minerals

Unusual and rare minerals that I felt would be better here than in some other category! :)

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Item #21931 Merwinite 5.5x3.2x1.4 cm Largest Crystal Size: 1mm $35.00 Crestmore Quarry Riverside County California, USA Whitish crystals of this unusual calc-silicate mineral are embedded in this piece. Unusual.	Item #21926 Zunyite 6.6x4.3x2.8 cm Largest Crystal Size: 1mm $75.00 Big Bertha Mine Quartzite Arizona, USA This fragment of quartz.mica matrix contains many hundreds of colourless to beigey zunyite crystals. The crystals are very well formed and are, generally, combinations of cube and octahedron with the octahedron dominating some times. Rich sample with many sharp crystals.	Item #20931 Thomsenolite, Siderite, Sphalerite, Ralstonite 12.4x9.0x7.5 cm Largest Crystal Size: 6mm $425.00 Ivigtut Deposit Ivittuut, Arsuk Fjord Greenland There are cavities all over this specimen that are lined with superb, elongated, terminated thomsenolite crystals. Of course as is usually the case, the thomsenolite is white but has a light coating of iron oxide that give the specimen its classic look. Matrix appears to me massive thomsenolite with a few small siderite and sphalerite crystals embedded in it. As well, there are small cube-octahedral ralstonite crystals on the thomsenolite crystals, inside the vugs. We don't seem much of this material around any more!	Item #21959 Raite 3.8x2.8x2.0 cm Largest Crystal Size: micro $65.00 Indian Mountain Kola Peninsula Russia There are many open spaces in this matrix that reveal beautiful crystal sprays of the rare Sodium-manganese-titanium silicate raite. There are supposed to be zorite crystals(?) in the cavities as well but I cannot recognize them. Maybe you can?! Very nice raite!
Item #21937 Carparthite 7.0x6.0x5.1 cm Largest Crystal Size: 6mm $65.00 Picacho Mine San Benito Co. California, USA This specimen has some openings that contain yellowish crystals of this unusual mineral that is composed of just carbon and hydrogen! Some nice crystals here!	Item #21945 Strengite 4.3x2.5x1.6 cm Largest Crystal Size: 0.5mm $40.00 Indian Mountain Cherokee County Alabama, USA Beautiful well formed crystals are present both on the darker oxide matrix and as thicker covering on the other side of the specimen. Not all crystals are undamaged but there are many that are perfect and excellent for photography!	Item #21951 Kleinite 5.8x3.0x3.2 cm Largest Crystal Size: 1.5mm $65.00 McDermit Humboldt County Nevada, USA Much of the front of this specimen is covered with rough but coherent crystals of kleinite. When I fist saw this mineral, I thought perhaps it was a uranium mineral, it is so yellow. No, it is a mercury mineral. Rare!	Item #21955 Felsobanyaite, Gypsum 3.7x2.8x2.8 cm Largest Crystal Size: n/a $40.00 Chickerell Dorset England OK, it is not pretty! It IS unusual, though! White aggregates of this unusual aluminum sulfate mineral intermixed with elongated growths of gypsum. Was labelled originally as "basaluminite", which is a pseudonym for felsobanyaite. Unusual!
Item #21961 Ussingite 4.7x4.3x3.2 cm Largest Crystal Size: n/a $65.00 Mt. Punkurauj Chibiny Massif, Kola Peninsula Russia A fragment of massive ussingite ranging from light mauve to purple. Rich!	Item #21991 Tellurobismuthite 5.6x5.1x3.5 cm Largest Crystal Size: 2mm cleavage $45.00 Fyresdal Norway Lots of bright, lustrous cleavages of this unusual telluride scattered throughout this quartz matrix. Rich!	Item #21992 Brewsterite, Baryte 3.5x3.4x2.2 cm Largest Crystal Size: 2mm $35.00 Strontian Argyllshire Scotland This thick plate has its top covered with white crested baryte crystals which have a generous sprinkling of sharp brewsterite crystals. There is sphalerite or wurtzite embedded in the matrix. From the type locality!	Item #22167 Clinoptilite-Ca 3.7x3.7x2.3 cm Largest Crystal Size: 2mm $45.00 Succor Creek Oregon, USA This geode-like, quartz nodule is hollow and completely lined with tabular, sharp, gemmy clinoptilite crystals. Excellent!
Item #22548 Sarabauite, Stibnite 6.2x4.5x1.7 cm Largest Crystal Size: n/a $55.00 Sarabau Mine Sarawak, Borneo Malaysia Rich, red sarabauite is associated with metallic stibnite, both being embedded in calcite and wollastonite. This is the type locality for this unusual antimony mineral!	Item #22655 Euxenite 1.9x1.3x0.5 cm Largest Crystal Size: as above $55.00 Ankazobe Madagascar A flattened cluster of slightly radioactive euxenite crystals. The crystals have a thin creamy alteration coating and an interior of resinous dark brown.	Item #22656 Mendipite 3.7x2.2x1.2 cm Largest Crystal Size: n/a $45.00 Merehead Quarry Mendip, Somerset England A solid zone of mendipite, the rare lead oxy-chloride mineral from the type locality.	Item #22676 Jamborite, Siderite 11.8x7.8x3.8 cm Largest Crystal Size: 3mm $75.00 Sterling Mine Antwerp New York, USA Sharp, acicular pseudomorphs of jamborite after millerite are tucked away here and there in interstices of this wide, shallow siderite crystal pocket. Classic Sterling Mine! R
Item #22797 Dawsonite, Calcite 16.0x6.0x3.6 cm Largest Crystal Size: 7mm $65.00 St. Bruno Quebec, Canada Masses of dawsonite fibers are present in fracture in this apparent limestone matrix. openings in the rock are lined with calcite rhombs. Unusual! R	Item #25064 Rosenbuschite, Eudialyte, Aegirine 7.0x4.0x4.8 cm Largest Crystal Size: n/a $75.00 Norra Karr, Sweden Some 1-2mm orangey-brown crystals of rosenbuschite are embedded in this nepheline-eudialite-aegirine rock. Rare!	Item #25968 Bayldonite, Mimetite 2.7x2.2x1.6 cm Largest Crystal Size: micro $45.00 Gold Hill Mine Toole County Utah, USA Lots of light green bayldonite crystals associated with white mimetite crystals on this gossanous matrix. Very good!	Item #25993 Boltwoodite, Calcite 2.9x2.4x2.3 cm Largest Crystal Size: 3mm $75.00 Swapkomund Namibia A couple of sprays of deep-yellow boltwoodite span this calcite crystal lined vug in massive calcite. Very nice example!
Item #26258 Dawsonite 3.7x3.9x1.2 cm Largest Crystal Size: 8mm $45.00 McGill University Excavation Montreal Quebec, Canada This specimen comes from an excavation for a building at McGill University in 2002 and is about as close to the type locality as you can get. The dawsonite is present in two fracture seams on two sides of the matrix. Excellent and unusual specimen!	Item #26394 Klebelsbergite, Sulphure, Stibnite 6.9x4.7x2.6 cm Largest Crystal Size: micro $65.00 Pereta Mine Grosetto, Tuscany Italy This specimen is predominately stibnitre crystal sections with openings between the stibnite crystals and, also, the matrix. In these openings are lots of yellow, gemmy crystals of native sulphure. As well, often there are whitish sprays of acicular klebelsbergite crystals. Excellent!	Item #26445 Fluor-buergerite 3.6x3.0x2.1 cm Largest Crystal Size: 9mm $65.00 San Luis Potosi Mexico Very sharp crystals of this relatively rare tourmaline group member seem to be embedded in red, common opal on volcanic matrix. The crystals are dark brown and have very sharp faces. Excellent example!	Item #26453 Molybdite, Quartz, Molybdenite 3.9x3.8x3.0 cm Largest Crystal Size: micro $65.00 Ferero Auro Mine Bolivia Lots of tiny, acicular, yellow crystals of this molybdenum oxide mineral between much bigger iron tinted quartz crystals. A clump of molybdenite at the base of the crystals.
Item #26494 Strengite 8.5x7.0x4.6 cm Largest Crystal Size: micro $45.00 Indian Mountain Cherokee County Alabama, USA This matrix has clusters of strengite exposed in iron-oxide rich seams on a large portion of its surface. An od label that accompanies the specimens says there is also laubmannite, dufresnite and Rockbridgite on the specimen. I'm not all that familiar with these phosphates, so I'll leave those up to you! :) There IS nice strengite!!